May 22: Letters To the Editor

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Road to recovery

Brittany Loring is certainly one tough Bostonian, after dealing with a skull fracture and two leg wounds (“Marathon bombing victim looks forward to MBA,” May 20). She’s a major success already, as she gets her business degree and finishes recovering from her injuries. And now she has her whole life ahead of her. I am just so sorry that she and others had to go through such pain.

— John Donovan, Seabrook, N.H.

Let Eastie decide

When Massachusetts voted to ban dog racing, it was unfair to Raynham, where there was a dog track, to have people all over the state — such as out in North Adams — included in the vote (“Two candidates want city to vote on Suffolk casino,” May 14). The folks in Raynham were out of a job and people elsewhere couldn’t care less.

Let’s say we allow the whole city of Boston to vote on whether to have a casino in East Boston, and Eastie votes yes — for jobs and economics — while West Roxbury and other parts of the city say no. Well, who loses out?

— Joseph Lacey, Dorchester

Pursuit of happiness

Taking the gauge of the current political climate, one starts to wonder how and why we have become so rooted in the outrageous — that the growing contrast between the haves and have-nots has spun out of control (“Return of Taxachusetts,” May 12). People who are willing to fork out outrageous ticket prices to sporting events, some of which goes to leveling the playing field between teams, are totally unwilling to pay a fair and proportionate share of income taxes, so as to level the playing field for average citizens. There is something very wrong with this picture and this game. While we all appreciate that we have to dig deeper in our pockets to field our share of sports superstars and their lavish lifestyles, why not dig a little deeper to enhance the lives of those less fortunate Americans?

When it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we can do more to share the rewards.

— Jim Butler, Falmouth

No to amnesty

The U.S. Senate immigration reform bill, which would grant amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens in the country, is arguably one of the most destructive pieces of legislation ever debated by Congress (“Don’t fight last immigration war,” May 7). It appears to have been written to satisfy every open-borders, pro-amnesty group in the country. As for its border security requirements, the bill only requires “a plan” to be developed. We need to make sure that this legislation is killed.

— Mike Nestor, Littleton

Pity for DiMasi

Let’s send the Marathon bombing suspect to Kentucky, instead of Sal DiMasi (“DiMasi, family doing hard time,” May 15). Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is getting top-notch medical care at a Devens prison hospital. Meanwhile, we send a truly ill person like DiMasi to Kentucky to suffer until he dies. DiMasi broke the law and was sentenced, but why would we force him to be away from his family during this difficult time and cater to the punk who did a heck of a lot worse? Let DiMasi come home and serve his time.